Explores how plants and animals survive in one of Earth's harshest environments—deserts, where annual rainfall is less than 10 inches and temperature extremes are common. The film shows how desert ...

Established in 1939, the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix continues to uphold a legacy of showcasing and protecting Arizona's desert environments. In 2022, the garden welcomed more than 870,000 ...

The semi-arid Kalahari Desert stretches over parts of Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana. It’s an ecological wonderland that isn’t like your average super dry desert. It gets a lot more rain, which ...

The Earth is full of remarkable species, and the wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) is certainly one of them. This small critter is the only amphibian on the planet that lives north of the Arctic ...

1. Introduction -- 2. Abiotic factors -- 3. Morphological and physiological adaptations of desert plants to the abiotic environment -- 4. Morphological, physiological, and behavioural adaptations of ...

Zoos in Florida, Texas, California and Arizona are experts at dealing with heat. Animals are perhaps more readily equipped than humans to deal with extreme heat. But when the heat index climbs into ...